A case management order is a court order that sets the schedule and procedures for a case or a group of cases, including deadlines for discovery, motions and trial. It fixes the calendar that duration estimates are built against.
In complex and consolidated litigation, these orders govern everything from pleading forms to expert disclosure. They are modified often, and each modification can move the timeline.
For measurement, scheduling orders are checkpoints. A new order is information about the procedural clock and prompts a refreshed estimate.
A case management order is not a promise that dates will hold. Courts extend schedules, and the history of extensions is itself informative.
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